Hello Framers, I am going to chime in here regarding InDesign scripting. InDesign offers several scripting options: AppleScript for the Mac version, Visual Basic for the PC version, and JavaScript for both. Since these languages have other applications, there are plenty of resources for learning them.
In my experience, however, performance can be a major issue. Well-written JavaScript scripts can be painfully slow in InDesign, especially on long documents. For most scripting tasks that I have tackled, a FrameMaker/FrameScript workflow runs circles around a similar InDesign/JavaScript workflow. If your documentation process can benefit from automation, and you can do without InDesign's unique features, you are usually better off staying with FrameMaker and FrameScript. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. r...@frameexpert.com 585-659-8267 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
